Payment Screening Block sanctioned activity, keep payments flowing
Get greater precision and lower false positives with real-time, AI-supported payment screening technology from Hawk.
Product Highlights Reduce friction for good customers without letting a sanctioned payment through
Screen every transaction instantly (< 300 ms) and catch sanctioned entities with precision with Hawk’s rail-agnostic API and self-serve rule and list configuration
Resolve clear-cut false positives by deriving missing data points (like gender and entity type) that your source data doesn’t provide
Don’t review unchanged hits twice—remember past analyst decisions so alerts are only generated when entity or list data changes
Efficient payment screening Comply effortlessly at scale
Scale your volumes without compromising on compliance by providing your organization with the tools to pinpoint sanctions hits efficiently.
- Coverage for any payment rail, through one API
- Integration with global sanctions lists
- Easy list management with ability to create dynamic, tailored sublists
- Payment interdiction
- Self-serve fuzzy matching configuration and tuning
- Click-of-a-button hit dispositioning
- AI false positive reduction based on derived data points
- Automated audit trail
- Production sandbox testing
- AI infers missing attributes to resolve clear-cut false positives before a payment is held
The Hawk Difference Discover how Hawk raises the bar for efficient payment screening
The Traditional Way
- Payments blocked unnecessarily
- Generic algorithm, not purpose-built with transaction screening in mind
- False positives cleared manually by analysts
- Slow processing and poor scalability
- Costly maintenance with individually mapped connections to each payment rail
- One-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t reflect local regulations
- Hardcoded rules, managed by vendor support team
- Outdated user interface requiring many clicks and one-hit-at-a-time reviews
The Hawk Way
- Friction-right controls with low false positives
- Proprietary fuzzy matching algorithm with granular, rule-specific tuning settings
- Predictive AI resolves clear-cut false positives and AI agents triage the remaining hits, providing explainable, audit-ready reasoning for each decision
- 150 ms avg. response time at scale
- Smooth maintenance thanks to uniform payment rail mapping via single API
- Multi-tenant structure that supports multiple regional regulations
- Self-serve model configuration and sandbox testing
- Simplified, unified view of all sanctions hits
AI FALSE POSITIVE REDUCTION Fewer false positives, fully explained
Keep legitimate payments moving while AI resolves the false positives that would typically slow them down providing evidence for every decision.
The AI:
- Closes the gaps incomplete source data leaves behind, by deriving gender and entity type directly from the screened party's name
- Rules out clear mismatches with confidence, comparing each derived attribute against the watchlist entity so missing data never causes a false positive
- Gives analysts a clear, quantified basis for trusting every call, with a confidence score assigned to each attribute comparison
- Makes every recommendation easy to defend to a regulator, surfacing the evidence behind it — which attributes matched, which didn't, and why — in plain language
Awards & Recognition Leading the industry forward
Learn how Hawk's AI-fueled technology is driving the future of AML & CFT, according to software analysts and industry experts.
All bases, covered
Comply with every sanction and restriction in real time
Sanctions
Prevent sanctioned individuals, entities, and sectors from using your services with automated third-party sanctions lists updates.
Embargos
Halt transactions with embargoed countries with geolocation transaction blocking and country-specific rules.
Dual-Use Goods
Stop payments for controlled goods by monitoring for risky words in transaction fields.
Introducing: The Payment Screening Agent
Free analysts from clearing noise so they can focus on counterparty risks that actually matter and unblock legitimate payments quicker.
Agentic AI: A Practical Guide for Anti-Financial Crime and Compliance Leaders
How is agentic AI changing the way that financial crime and compliance teams work? Our latest whitepaper provides you with 50 pages of insight on the best use cases for agentic AI, covering:
- Improving investigations
- Enhancing system accuracy
- Optimizing workflows
Request a demo 2X More Threats Caught. 50% Less Effort.
Catch more risk. Investigate faster. Scale without adding headcount across AML, screening & fraud
Request a personalized demo with a Hawk product expert and see how Hawk's AI-powered platform for AML, screening, and fraud prevention can strengthen your financial crime and compliance program without a multi-year migration.
During the demo, you'll see:
- How Hawk helps you catch more true risk while cutting false positives across AML, screening, and fraud
- How Hawk's AI agents can automate alert investigations, and catch what your team never had the hours to find, backed by full governance and human-in-the-loop controls
- How explainable, compliance-ready AI holds up under your regulators' and model risk management scrutiny
- Why institutions, like yours, choose Hawk for fast time to value — live in month, not years, with models that deliver precision from day one
- The results you could expect at your scale, based on peer outcomes
Articles & Resources The latest from Hawk
Hawk Launches New AI Risk Screening Capabilities to Tackle False Positives
Hawk launches three new AI capabilities for risk screening, enabling financial institutions to prevent the creation of irrelevant hits and allow analysts to investigate alerts more efficiently.
Reducing False Positives in Sanctions & Watchlist Screening with AI
Risk screening often runs on nothing more than a name, matched against expansive sanctions and watchlists. Hawk's AI False Positive Reduction was recently awarded the Silver Medal for Best Sanctions & Watchlist Screening Innovation by Datos Insights. Find out how it's filling that data gap for more precise screening and fewer false positives.
Hawk Named Technology Standout in New Celent Adverse Media Screening Report
Hawk has been recognized as a Technology Standout in the latest Celent report, Know Your Customer Systems: Adverse Media Screening Solutionscape and Technology Capabilities Matrix, for its Customer Screening solution's breadth of functionality and technical sophistication.